Pichai tweeted out the news Tuesday, noting that the event will take place in the "neighborhood where it all started 10 ys ago: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View." Details about conference sessions, ticket sales, etc., have not been updated yet on the Google I/O website.

Google bills I/O as an opportunity to hear inspiration speakers, do hands-on training and to check out Google's latest products.

Google has instituted a lottery system for tickets the past couple of years after a mad rush to buy tickets online created plenty of hard feelings when tickets were gobbled up in under an hour. Like Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Google I/O has become one of the hottest tickets in tech, with tickets last year priced at $900 for general admission and $300 for academics.

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